The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-06
LATEST NEWS.
Dates to March 29th Inclusive by
the Australia.
miscellaneous.

A Queenstown dispatch OF March 9th
announces that the yacht Coronet crossed
the finish line at Roche's Point at II 80 p.
m. that day, London time. The Atlantic
passage was very stormy; encountered a
hurricane. The Dauntless crossed the line
at 6:45 p. m. on the 28th also experienced
very severe weather. Floating ice was en-
countered. 1t was one of the stOrmiest
passages ever experienced on the Atlantic.
The start was made at New York March
18th at is p. IN.
Postmaster General Villas wants the
nomination for Vice President in 1888.
Blaine is to make a Southern tour, fol-
lowing Sherman and speaking at all points
after him This is not pleasant news for
Sherman.
The Gear, replying to the address OF stu
dents of the University, congratulating
him on his escape from the recent plot to
assassinate him, says: thank the Univer-
sity, and hope it will prove its relation to
me by deeds, not merely on paper, and en-
deavor to efface the grave impression which
the part number of students took in the
criminal design on my life has created III
every one. May God bless and guide the
University Alright
Emperor William being indisposed, the
Empress on March 9th accorded farewell
audience to Monsignor Galimberti the
special Envoy of the Pope. In receiving
him she said: at seems to me as if had
known you long time, Monsignor. In
the name of the Emperor, 1 beg you to
thank the Holy Father. Tell him how
great an interest we take in his person and
that we entertain the warmest wishes for
his welfare" Monsignor Galimberti will
take with him to Rome an autograph let
ter from Emperor William to the Pope. 1t
is rumored that he will return to Berlin
after Easter, when a better opportunity
will be afforded for the settlement of polit-
ical questions.
ClrGinal Gibbons re ort on the Knights
of Labor to the Vatican has been pub
Hshed 1t is a very able document, and |
vindicates the Knights of Labor from the |
charge of violence made against that or
ganization. He thinks the Church and the |
Order will cooperate.
A riot occurred March 9th at Panama,
owing to military officer resisting ar
were wounded.
There had been loss equal to about IS
per cent of cattle in Montana, owing to
severe weather. Sheep and horses also
suffered severely.
The Inter State Commerce bill has
proved boomerang" The effect of its
enactment has been to increase through
freights and passenger rates enormously.
The Pennsylvania road has announced an
increase of 20 per cent on its commute
ton tickets, and the Baltimore and Ohio
will follow suit. The companies through
out the West are calling in the Outstand-
ing thousand-nile tickets, declaring that
the law prohibits their issue. Such an
idea never entered the heads of the
trainers of the bill, and there is nothing
either directly or indirectly in the law
that is applicable on the point.
A London dispatch of March 18th states:
In the absence of any news looking like
war there comes every day news of some
or conspiracy against the
form of Government in Eu-
rope, while the conspiracy stories from ST.
Petersburg are not yet at an end. News of
a conspiracy in Madrid comes in dis
patch to-day from an authentic source
The conspiracy against the Spanish Gov
eminent had made remarkable PROCESS.
A number of arrests have been made and
more are to follow.
There is an active intrigue in Paris for
the purpose of oVerthrowing the Goblet
The direct object of this move
ment is to get rid of General Boulanger.
A vote of confidence will probably soon
De sought by NJ. Goblet in connection with
he supplementary estimates demanded
by the Government. NJ. Ferry, although
le is absent now in Algeria, is regarded I
Is one of the prime movers in this con- /
piracy.
Thirteen anarchists, convicted of COM
,licity in the plot to set fire to the city and i
low up the Imperial Palace at Schon- a
,runn, with dynamite, have been SEN
enced to imprisonment at hard labor for ! /